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Once again, the situation has arisen in a nearby school district.
Grow Another Row produce donations sites are open in Cass County for the 2024 season. Growers with rhubarb, asparagus, radishes, greens, herbs and other early-season produce are now invited to share their harvests.
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ATLANTIC – Riverside’s Addison Brink finished with an 86 on the greens of Nishna Hills Golf Course to take runner-up medalist honors on the girls’ side of the Western Iowa Conference golf meet Wednesday.
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Once again, the situation has arisen in a nearby school district.
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ATLANTIC – Riverside’s Addison Brink finished with an 86 on the greens of Nishna Hills Golf Course to take runner-up medalist honors on the girls’ side of the Western Iowa Conference golf meet…
Atlantic’s going to be a very busy place for the post-season.
Coaches can now use electronic devices to communicate with the catcher in certain defensive situations, and pitching chutes will have a different look this season.
AMES – Iowa State defensive back T.J. Tampa was selected with the 130th pick by the Baltimore Ravens in the fourth round of the 2024 NFL Draft.
AUDUBON — The Audubon Community School District board approved a 5.1 percent pay increase total package for teachers during their meeting Monday night — all as determined by the new teacher pay bill that went through, according to school Superintendent Eric Trager.
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Indianapolis exercised the fifth-year option in the contract of pass rusher Kwity Paye, guaranteeing the No. 21 pick in the 2021 draft a salary of $13.4 million in 2025. Paye, 25, had his best year as a pro in 2023. He posted career highs with 8.5 sacks and 52 tackles. Paye had 10 total QB sacks in his first two seasons. in 43 career games, all starts, Paye has 129 tackles, including 21 tackles for loss. A defensive end at Michigan, Paye ranks 46th in the NFL in sacks (18.5) over the past three seasons. Paye was drafted between wide receiver Kadarius Toney (Giants) and cornerback Caleb Farley (Titans) in 2021. --Field Level Media
Packers decline CB Eric Stokes' fifth-year option
Cornerback Eric Stokes can become a free agent in March after the Green Bay Packers declined the 2025 team option in his contract. Drafted 29th out of Georgia in 2021, Stokes and the Packers could work out a contract extension before the current deal expires. But he'll likely have some proving to do before general manager Brian Gutekunst floats new paperwork. Picking up the fifth-year option would've been worth only $12.47 million, a relatively light guarantee because he failed to reach the required playing time threshold. Stokes, identified last week as one of the players standing out in the offseason program by head coach Matt LaFleur, turned in a stellar rookie season in 2021. He played in 16 games, posting 55 tackles and an interception, but injuries limited him to 12 total games the past two seasons. He had surgery following right ankle and knee injuries in Nov. 22 and didn't appear in a game until Oct. 22 last season. He was activated from the physically unable to perform list before the October loss to the Broncos, but his return was short-lived because of a hamstring injury. Stokes didn't suit up again until Dec. 17 and appeared in three regular-season games last season. The deadline for teams to exercise fifth-year options for 2021 first-rounders was Thursday. --Field Level Media
The Dallas Cowboys declined the fifth-year team option that would have paid backup quarterback Trey Lance $22.4 million guaranteed in 2025. Lance is the QB2 behind Dak Prescott, who enters the final season of a four-year contract that disqualifies the Cowboys from using the franchise tag to retain him next spring. The Cowboys, who insist they will bring back Prescott with a new contract stretching beyond the upcoming season, acquired Lance from the San Francisco 49ers in August 2023 for a fourth-round pick in the 2024 draft. Lance is not changing teams this summer but will switch numbers, claiming No. 19 and allowing returning running back Ezekiel Elliott to wear No. 15. Dallas owed Lance, the third overall pick in the 2021 draft, a total of $6.5 million in salary and bonuses for two seasons (2023, 2024). He will make $5.31 million in 2024. The designated starter for the 49ers in 2022, Lance fractured his ankle and set in motion the chain of events that led to then seventh-round rookie Brock Purdy taking over and engineering a playoff run to the NFC Championship Game. Lance has appeared in eight games with four starts since being selected out of North Dakota State in a largely displaced QB draft class topped by Trevor Lawrence (first overall, Jaguars) and Zach Wilson (No. 2, Jets). Wilson was shipped to the Denver Broncos before the draft. Fellow '21 first-rounders Justin Fields (11th, Bears) and Mac Jones (15th, Patriots) were also traded this offseason. --Field Level Media
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Ryan Mountcastle and Jorge Mateo each homered and drove in two runs to lift the Baltimore Orioles to a series-deciding 7-2 victory over the New York Yankees on Thursday.
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AUDUBON COUNTY — It took almost three years but a new playground in the beach shelter area at Littlefield Recreation Area is in place.
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Live from the UCLA campus in Los Angeles where clean-up is underway following days of pro-Palestinian protests. Earlier, police arrested at least 132 people at UCLA, where chaotic scenes played out early Thursday with officers in riot gear surging against a crowd of demonstrators.
PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has relegated a Civil War-era ban on most abortions to the past by signing a repeal bill Thursday.
Police have arrested more than 2,000 people during pro-Palestinian protests at college campuses across the United States in recent weeks. That's according to a tally by The Associated Press. Demonstrations — and arrests — have occurred in almost every corner of the nation. But in the last 24 hours, they’ve drawn the most attention at the University of California, Los Angeles, where chaotic scenes played out early Thursday as officers in riot gear surged against a crowd of demonstrators. The California Highway Patrol has said at least 200 people were arrested in the crackdown at UCLA.
US stocks rose on Thursday as investors digested the Federal Reserve interest rate outlook and awaited Apple's latest results on the eve of critical payroll data.
Apple on Thursday said its quarterly profit ebbed but topped market forecasts as it announced a massive $110 billion share buyback.
Hamas says it's sending a delegation to Egypt as soon as possible to continue talks in the latest sign of progress in the fragile cease-fire process. The group’s supreme leader Ismail Haniyeh said Thursday he had spoken to Egypt’s intelligence chief and Hamas negotiators would travel to Cairo "to complete the ongoing discussions with the aim of working forward for an agreement.” But chances for the deal are entangled with the question of whether Israel can accept an end to the war without reaching its stated goal of destroying Hamas. The stakes in the cease-fire negotiations were made clear in a new U.N. report that said if the war in Gaza stops today it will still take until 2040 to rebuild.
Millions of voters in England and Wales have cast their ballots in an array of local elections. The voting on Thursday was the last big test before a U.K. general election that all indicators show will see the Conservative Party ousted from power after 14 years. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will hope he can point to some successes including in a couple of key mayoral races. That would douse talk that the Conservative Party will change its leader once again before the United Kingdom's main election. The leader of the main opposition Labour Party will be hoping that the party is on course to sweep to power for the first time since 2010.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — When Ademola Adesina founded a startup to provide solar and battery-based power subscription packages to individuals and businesses in Nigeria in 2015, it was a lot harder to raise money than it is today.
PARIS (AP) — French officials inaugurated on Thursday a huge water storage basin meant to help clean up the River Seine, set to be the venue for marathon swimming at the Paris Games and the swimming leg of the Olympic and Paralympic triathlons.
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Once again, the situation has arisen in a nearby school district.
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Who’d have thought that a week after the NCAA Division I women’s basketball tournament ended, that the spotlight would still be on the Iowa Hawkeyes?
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There’s a number of of examples out there in sports over the weekend that redefined everything about sports.
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It’s hard to tell whether the much-anticipated Iowa-LSU showdown in Monday’s Elite Eight game will stand as a classic for all time.
